Travis Lindstrom

Nationality: USA/AUS
Date of Birth: 6/03/77
Place of Birth: Tacoma, Washington (USA)
Position: GRD
Height (CM): 197
Weight (KG): 98
Junior Assoc: NSW - Illawarra
College: Hawaii-Hilo (1997) / Point Loma Nazarene (2000)

NBL DEBUT: 19/04/96
AGE AT DEBUT: 19
LAST NBL GAME: 29/02/04
AGE AT LAST GAME: 27
NBL History: Townsville 1996, 1998 | West Sydney 2001 | Perth 2003 | Hunter 2004
Championships: 0
None

BIO: Travis Lindstrom was born in Tacoma, Washington (USA).

NBL EXPERIENCE

Travis Lindstrom made his NBL debut with the Townsville Suns at 19 years of age. He went scoreless in his first NBL game.

As a result of Canberra’s NBL licence moving to Newcastle, former Cannons players Brendan Mann, Matthew Shanahan and Cameron Rigby all came across to the Pirates to form the beginnings of the Pirates roster. Hunter chose not to retain Cannons coach Cal Bruton and signed Bruce Palmer as their first head coach.

Hunter signed rookie point guard Chris Harriman (via Augusta State) straight out of college and filled the remainder of the roster with low-cost imports Kevin Brooks and Chris Brown, local players Josh Morgan and Adam Melmeth, and a number of players who had been discarded by their former clubs like Geordie Cullen (via Wollongong), Michael Kingma (via Sydney) and Travis Lindstrom (via Perth) who were all unable to secure deals elsewhere.

It took six games before the Pirates won their first game, a four-point victory over Adelaide at home (103–99) and then managed to win only one more, a home win against Cairns (109–103) and ended their first season on a 15-game losing streak. Their two win season was the second worst in NBL history (outside of Geelong’s zero win season in 1988).

Initial coach Bruce Palmer was controversially fired partway into the season and was replaced by assistant coach David Simmons but that made little difference to the team’s success.

Cullen (17.7 points, 7.5 rebounds, and 1.3 assists) would lead the team in scoring and win the league’s Most Improved Player award at the end of the season. Kevin Brooks (16.8 points, 5.7 rebounds, and 1.8 assists), Matthew Shanahan (15.7 points, 3.6 rebounds, and 4.0 assists) and Chris Brown (10.3 points, 4.9 rebounds, and 1.8 assists) would lead the team in scoring. Starting point guard Brendan Mann (9.3 points, 3.3 rebounds, and 1.3 steals) suffered a season ending injury only three games into the season, resulting in rookie Chris Harriman (7.4 points, 3.8 rebounds, and 4 assists) stepping into the starting lineup. Harriman would narrowly miss out of winning the Rookie of the Year award, finishing second to West Sydney’s Steven Markovic.

Lindstrom would play in all 32 games for the Pirates and deliver the best numbers of his career, averaging 7.0 points, 2.6 rebounds, 2.1 assists, and 1.1 steals.

Travis Lindstrom played five seasons across four NBL teams. This included the Townsville Suns, West Sydney Razorbacks, Townsville Crocodiles, Perth Wildcats and Hunter Pirates. He averaged 4.8 points, 2 rebounds, and 1.4 assists in 65 NBL games.

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NBL TOTAL STATISTICS

SEASON	AGE	TEAM	TEAM RECORD	GP	MINS	PTS	REB	AST	OR	DR	STL	BLK	TO	PF	FGM	FGA	FG%	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	TS%	EFG%	HS
2003-04	27	Hunter	2-31 (12)	32	760.0	223	84	66	29	55	34	11	37	93	76	217	35%	35	118	30%	36	43	84%	47%	43%	24
2002-03	26	Perth	22-8 (2)	1	10.0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	50%	1	2	50%	0	0	0%	75%	0%	3
2000-01	24	West Sydney	9-19 (8)	7	52.0	18	6	2	1	5	2	0	1	5	8	20	40%	2	7	29%	0	0	0%	45%	45%	8
1998	21	Townsville	12-18 (9)	21	264.0	73	40	20	18	22	11	2	9	25	24	64	38%	13	35	37%	12	17	71%	51%	48%	10
1996	19	Townsville	9-17 (11)	4	43.0	1	5	4	1	4	0	1	2	2		2	0%	0	0	0%	1	2	50%	17%	0%	1
Totals				65	1129	318	135	92	49	86	47	14	49	125	109	305	35.7%	51	162	31.5%	49	62	79.0%	48%	44%	24

NBL PER GAME STATISTICS

SEASON	AGE	TEAM	TEAM RECORD	GP	MINS	PTS	REB	AST	OR	DR	STL	BLK	TO	PF	FGM	FGA	FG%	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	TS%	EFG%	HS
2003-04	27	Hunter	2-31 (12)	32	23.8	7.0	2.6	2.1	0.9	1.7	1.1	0.3	1.2	2.9	2.4	6.8	35%	1.1	3.7	30%	1.1	1.3	84%	47%	43%	24
2002-03	26	Perth	22-8 (2)	1	10.0	3.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	2.0	50%	1.0	2.0	50%	0.0	0.0	0%	75%	0%	3
2000-01	24	West Sydney	9-19 (8)	7	7.4	2.6	0.9	0.3	0.1	0.7	0.3	0.0	0.1	0.7	1.1	2.9	40%	0.3	1.0	29%	0.0	0.0	0%	45%	45%	8
1998	21	Townsville	12-18 (9)	21	12.6	3.5	1.9	1.0	0.9	1.0	0.5	0.1	0.4	1.2	1.1	3.0	38%	0.6	1.7	37%	0.6	0.8	71%	51%	48%	10
1996	19	Townsville	9-17 (11)	4	10.8	0.3	1.3	1.0	0.3	1.0	0.0	0.3	0.5	0.5	0.0	0.5	0%	0.0	0.0	0%	0.3	0.5	50%	17%	0%	1
Total				65	17.4	4.9	2.1	1.4	0.8	1.3	0.7	0.2	0.8	1.9	1.7	4.7	35.7%	0.0	0.0	31.5%	0.8	2.5	79.0%	48%	44%	24

CAREER HIGHS

POINTS	REBOUNDS	ASSISTS	STEALS	BLOCKS	TURNOVERS	TRIPLE DOUBLES
24	8	7	4	2	5	0

STATE LEAGUE EXPERIENCE

Townsville 1996 | Lakeside 2002-2003

Lakeside 2002-2003, 50g, 975pt @ 19.5

Season	Team	PTS	AST	STL	BLK	FGM	FGA	FG%	3PM	3PA	3P%
1	0	47%	67%	70%	64%
2	0	24	7	4	2
Total						109	305	35.7%	51	162	31.5%

NBA TOTAL STATISTICS

YEAR	AGE	TEAM	POS	GP	GS	MINS	PTS	TRB	AST	ORB	DRB	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	FT	FTA	FT%	TS%	EFG%
2003-04	27	Hunter	2-31 (12)	32	760.0	223	84	66	29	55	34	11	37	93	76	217	35%	35	118	30%	36	43	84%	47%	43%	24
2002-03	26	Perth	22-8 (2)	1	10.0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	50%	1	2	50%	0	0	0%	75%	0%	3
2000-01	24	West Sydney	9-19 (8)	7	52.0	18	6	2	1	5	2	0	1	5	8	20	40%	2	7	29%	0	0	0%	45%	45%	8
1998	21	Townsville	12-18 (9)	21	264.0	73	40	20	18	22	11	2	9	25	24	64	38%	13	35	37%	12	17	71%	51%	48%	10
1996	19	Townsville	9-17 (11)	4	43.0	1	5	4	1	4	0	1	2	2		2	0%	0	0	0%	1	2	50%	17%	0%	1
Total				0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		0	0

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